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SP Night for kitty

The 16-colour ANSI mapping, plus cursor, selection, splits, the tab bar and the three mark slots.

the repository ↗ kitty ↗ kitty.conf.tmpl ↗

kitty themed with SP Night Noite Paulistakitty themed with SP Night Garoakitty themed with SP Night Pico do Jaraguá

All three are dark, by decision. The previews below are synthetic — drawn from the palette itself, so they can never drift from what you install.

Install

the file goes here 
~/.config/kitty/sp_night_noite.conf
the file goes here 
~/.config/kitty/sp_night_garoa.conf
the file goes here 
~/.config/kitty/sp_night_jaragua.conf
then add this 
include sp_night_noite.conf
then add this 
include sp_night_garoa.conf
then add this 
include sp_night_jaragua.conf

Those are the paths for the flavour selected in the header — switch it and they follow.

kitty reads a theme through an include in its own config, so the file goes next to kitty.conf and nothing overwrites it.

Grab the flavour you want (or all three):

sh 
mkdir -p ~/.config/kitty
curl -Lo ~/.config/kitty/sp_night_noite.conf \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sp-night/kitty/main/themes/sp_night_noite.conf

Then add the include to ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf:

conf 
include sp_night_noite.conf

Reload with ctrl+shift+f5 (cmd+ctrl+, on macOS), or open a new window.

Prefer a checkout? Clone and copy — the files are plain text, there is no build:

sh 
git clone https://github.com/sp-night/kitty.git
cp kitty/themes/*.conf ~/.config/kitty/

What gets themed

kitty key role what it is
color0…color15 ansi.* the full 16-colour ANSI mapping
background / foreground ui.bg / ui.fg laje under the main text
cursor / cursor_text_color ui.cursor / ui.on_accent the sódio cursor, dark text inside it
selection_background / _foreground ui.selection / ui.fg vidro, glass reflecting the street
url_color ui.link links in marginal, the expressway sign
active_border_color / inactive_border_color ui.border_active / ui.border the focused split in sódio, the rest in fiação
bell_border_color diagnostic.warn a bell is a warning, not an accent
active_tab_* / inactive_tab_* ui.selection / ui.panel the active tab lifts to glass, the others stay concrete
tab_bar_background ui.bg_deep the tab bar recedes into the vão
mark1_background…mark3_background ui.accent / syntax.type / syntax.function three marks that have to be told apart, so they differ by hue

kitty.conf.tmpl is the full record of which kitty key means which role — the table above in complete form. The files in themes/ are what it resolves to, one per flavour.

You never need it to use the theme: the shipped files are plain text and final. It is here so the mapping survives, and so a retuned palette can be rolled through this port without anyone re-deciding what a bell border means.

What each role means →

Where the colours come from

No hex in this repo was picked by hand. Every value comes from the SP Night palette through its role layer, both published as data: palette.json and roles.json. The contrast floors those colours have to clear are written down in the spec and enforced in CI.